lokking for a disk partition editor

Michel Talon talon at lpthe.jussieu.fr
Sun Sep 21 20:04:30 UTC 2008


>      I would like to find a disk partition ("slice" in FreeBSD
> nomenclature)
> editor that runs under FreeBSD that is able to deal properly with
> logical
> partition entries chained from an extended partition entry in the Master
> Boot
> Record.  fdisk(8) appears to be too primitive to understand logical
> partitions.

/usr/ports/sysutils/linuxfdisk
will do the job no problem. This FreeBSD port provides fdisk, cfdisk and 
sfdisk fromLinux, ported to FreeBSD. In turn FreeBSD can make use of
logical partitions.


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Michel TALON



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